Jurriaan Kamp

Jurriaan Kamp is curator of the ‘solutions news’ platform, KAMP SOLUTIONS. In 1995, he left a successful career as the chief economics editor at leading Dutch newspaper “NRC Handelsblad” to co-found the “solutions journalism” magazine, “Ode.” In 2004, he moved to California with his family to launch the international edition of the magazine — renamed “The Intelligent Optimist” — in 2012. In 2015, Kamp launched a daily online solutions news service, The Optimist Daily. He has since moved on to launch KAMP SOLUTIONS. (Read more ...)

Kamp has also brought people together through initiatives such as The Treaty of Noordwijk aan Zee, which laid out the principles of a world economy on a human scale. That theme became the subject of his book, How to find health and success in a world that’s a better place than you think (2014). He is also the author of Because People Matter: Building an Economy that Works for Everyone (2001); Small Change: How Fifty Dollars Changes the World (2003) and The Intelligent Optimist’s Guide to Life (2014); and with Gunter Pauli, he has co-authored LiFi: Communication at the speed of light and the emergence of the Internet of people (2019); The Plastic Solutions: The business model that works for the oceans (2020); and The Third Dimension: 3D farming and 11 more unstoppable trends revolutionizing the production of food and fuel, regenerating nature and rebuilding communities (2021).